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As an adjunct to my mental health-related writing projects, I’m building extensive resources on Pinterest. I’m currently working on about 75 125(!) “secret” boards, which really just means “not ready for prime time” yet. I’ll release them to public viewing gradually, as I continue to work on the book(s) which they support.

Today I’ve released the new “What PTSD Feels Like” board for your perusal. It has 209 pins that try to capture the essence of what PTSD really feels like. Not everyone experiences it in the same way, but so much of it is universally relatable. You’re not alone in these feelings. And truly, you’re not crazy, even if at times it feels that way.

If you’re on RSS and can’t view the Pinterest widget below, either click through to this blog post, or go directly to the What PTSD Feels Like board on Pinterest.

NOTE: You can see my previous Pinterest releases in the DID/C-PTSD boards collection in this new dedicated DID/C-PTSD on Pinterest page in the header topics above.
 
 

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Just a heads up that starting Saturday, October 10th I’m offering another Goodreads Giveaway wherein you can win one of three signed paperback copies of Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder! I’ll add the signup widget here then; the Giveaway will run through Saturday, October 24th. You can participate if you live in the US, UK or Canada!

As noted in previous blog posts, I’m building extensive resources on Pinterest in support of my future Q&A book about dissociative identity disorder. Today I’m offering the third DID/C-PTSD board of the collection for you: Boundaries. We all need to work on establishing healthy boundaries, and learning how to align them with our own aspirations and intentions.

If you’re on RSS and can’t view the Pinterest widget below, either click through to this blog post, or go directly to the DID/C-PTSD: Boundaries board on Pinterest.

This is (still!) just the beginning of a lot of new collated resources for trauma survivors! Let me know if there are particular topics you’d like to see gathered in a Pinterest board. I may have one in the works already, but there’s always room for more!

NOTE: All links to DID/C-PTSD boards on Pinterest will be permanently collected in the new DID/C-PTSD on Pinterest page in the header topics above.
 
 

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This week’s PTSD on Pinterest topic is “Why Therapy?” These pins look at different aspects of therapy, different types, and why you should consider it.

With mental health parity finally getting mandated, coverage will become more widely available. It can truly change your life to enlist a trained, objective third party to be in your corner.

Good therapy is always a partnership, not a power struggle. Insist on that type of relationship in your therapy, or perhaps it’s time to find a new one. Either way, you don’t have to stay stuck wherever you find yourself right now.

Please click on over to “Why Therapy?”, and be open to entertaining the possibility that it could be what you need right now. Feel free to check out my other Pinterest boards, too!
 
 

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(Image via Women’s Coalition of St. Croix)

I’m still experiencing ‘difficulties’ in importing a Pinterest board onto my blog. Sometimes it works, and sometimes for no apparent reason at all, it doesn’t.

Such is the case with my “April: National Child Abuse Prevention Month” Pinterest board. It’s far too important of a topic to delay any further, so I ask you to click on through to my “April: National Child Abuse Prevention Month” Pinterest board to find posts and resources to help you bring child abuse awareness and prevention to your community.

You can find even more child abuse prevention resources, including books for both children and adults, in my general Child Abuse Prevention board. Feel free to repin and share, and check out all of my other boards on Pinterest.
 
 
 

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Welcome to PTSD on Pinterest! This week I’m offering up my latest PTSD pins on Pinterest. If you click through to the PTSD Resources board, there are now 200+ pins to peruse.

NOTE: If you receive my blog by RSS, links to pins transfer but the graphics do not. Please click on through to the board link above to see what this is all about. Thanks!
 

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  Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder and Schizophrenia - Clinical Differences ~ "So much misinformation and misunderstanding exist about #DID and #schizophrenia...." (via tellaboutabuse.wordpress.com) #PTSD #trauma
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  List of the top 10 #PTSD blogs of 2014, via psychcentral.com #trauma #vets #childabuse #rape
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  Please read if you have a loved one or friend who has a brain injury. In a nano second, our brain changed ... never to return. It is an invisible wound to you but to us we have lost our brain! Wouldn't that be as confusing and devastating as the loss of a limb? "Lost & Found: What Brain Injury Survivors Want You to Know" http://www.brainline.org/content/2011/07/lost-found-what-brain-injury-survivors-want-you-to-know.html
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  Grief
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  Great article on PTSD and childhood trauma
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  Tool for Measuring #Trauma and The Likelihood for Developing #PTSD
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  Affirmation/mantra - calming technique - for times of #anxiety or #panicattack
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  Children Learn What They Live
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  powerful words. #past #future
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  Resilience...
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  There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. www.healthyplace.com/
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  Children and teens have grown up in a world changed forever by the September 11…

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“A year from now you will wish
you had started today.” ~ Karen Lamb

 
 
Well, okay, sometimes I love changes….

After 2.5+ years of publishing Best Tweets for Trauma and PTSD Survivors nearly every Friday, I’ve concluded that I’ve tweaked the current format to its limits. That format consumes about 20 hours of my week, every week. Fridays are hectic here, to say the least.

I’m eager now to start some new projects, but they never really get off the ground due to the time constraints — and what’s left of my brain by Friday evening.

I’m exploring what are (hopefully!) faster and better ways to present curated resources, and I’m planning to morph what I do now into something more lastingly useful.

I’ll never stop tweeting the most helpful PTSD resources, but Best Tweets is going on hiatus for a few weeks while I suss out better alternatives. In the meantime, I’ll still publish my Favorite TweetStuff each Friday because, well, that’s fun and hardly ever mentally taxing.

Thanks so much for your support, as always!

Sarah